AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL is an independent, worldwide, voluntary movement that works to prevent some of the gravest violations by governments of people's fundamental human rights. The main focus of its campaigning is to:
  • free all prisoners of conscience
  • ensure fair and prompt trials for political prisoners
  • abolish the death penalty, torture, and other cruel treatment of prisoners
  • end extrajudicial executions and "disappearances"
    Amnesty works to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards, through human rights education programs and campaigning for ratification of human rights treaties. For further information about Amnesty's human rights education work contact:

      Human Rights Educators' Network
      Amnesty International USA, 1997
      53 West Jackson Blvd., Suite 1162
      Chicago, IL 60604
      Tel: 312-427-2060
      Fax: 312-427-2589
      vcolucci@aiusa.org

    The following readings and activities are from Human Rights Here and Now, and appear here with the permission of Amnesty International USA.




Universal Declaration Of Human Rights
(Abbreviated)
Article 1
Right to Equality 		Article 16
Right to Marriage and Family
Article 2
Freedom from Discrimination 		Article 17
Right to Own Property
Article 3
Right to Life, Liberty, Personal Security 		Article 18
Freedom of Belief and Religion
Article 4
Freedom from Slavery 		Article 19
Freedom of Opinion and Information
Article 5
Freedom from Torture and Degrading Treatment 		Article 20
Right of Peaceful Assembly and Association
Article 6
Right to Recognition as a Person before the Law 		Article 21
Right to Participate in Government and in Free Elections
Article 7
Right to Equality before the Law 		Article 22
Right to Social Security
Article 8
Right to Remedy by Competent Tribunal 		Article 23
Right to Desirable Work and to Join Trade Unions
Article 9
Freedom from Arbitrary Arrest and Exile 		Article 24
Right to Rest and Leisure
Article 10
Right to Fair Public Hearing 		Article 25
Right to Adequate Living Standard
Article 11
Right to be Considered Innocent until Proven Guilty 		Article 26
Right to Education
Article 12
Freedom from Interference with Privacy, Family, Home and Correspondence 		Article 27
Right to Participate in the Cultural Life of Community
Article 13
Right to Free Movement in and out of the Country 		Article 28
Right to a Social Order that Articulates this Document
Article 14
Right to Asylum in other Countries from Persecution 		Article 29
Community Duties Essential to Free and Full Development
Article 15
Right to a Nationality and the Freedom to Change It 		Article 30
Freedom from State or Personal Interference in the above Rights